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Remedies And The Cisg: Another Perspective, Robert A. Hillman
Remedies And The Cisg: Another Perspective, Robert A. Hillman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In this brief comment, I apply behavioral decision theory to the question of the enforcement in transnational sales of super-compensatory agreed damages. I conclude that a good case can be made that such damages provisions should be enforced.
On-Line Consumer Standard-Form Contracting Practices: A Survey And Discussion Of Legal Implications, Robert A. Hillman
On-Line Consumer Standard-Form Contracting Practices: A Survey And Discussion Of Legal Implications, Robert A. Hillman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In a recent article, Standard-Form Contracting in the Electronic Age, 77 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 429 (2002), Jeffery Rachlinski and I analyzed whether contract law's approach to the problem of paper standard forms can effectively govern electronic forms. We thought the rational and cognitive reasons consumers fail to read their paper forms apply in the e-environment. Further, although e-consumers do not face manipulative sales agents or impatient customers waiting in line but, instead, largely contract at home in the evening without time constraints, e-consumers are impatient, even click happy, and therefore still do not read their forms or shop for the …